The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-23

way IN their power, to promulgate and
make plain the infamy of the measure
hnder discussion, and l have noticed
that the correspondence of many whose
acquaintance l have not, has
been tempered with the same
feeling. This is a healthy feeling.
These are the men that mould
public opinion.They WELD their pens
for good or for evil, Editors are in a
great measure guided by their reports,
and lin turn, the readers of the jour
| mails they represent are more or less
Influenced by the attitude these jour
nails assume upon any question that
may come up for discussion. Polyg-
amy they desire to see eradicated, but
in the eradication thereof they are not
willing that the Constitution should be
torn to shreds, so to speak, or that an
everlasting injustice should be perpe-
| trated upon an innocent and inoffensive
people, merely because-the are I'M
popular, or because their numbers are
infnitesmal as cOmparedwi the popu-
lation of this nation. Since the passage
of the bill, various and numerous have
been the comments upon it in the
Hobbies of the Capitol and the principal
hotels. The question as to whether it
shall or should become law has been
intimately discussed, and in this mat
ter public opinion is very much divided.
Senators Edmunds, ingalls, and Pugh
have been appointed the conference
committee ON the -bilk-fo r-the
Senate; Representative Tucker, Col
Inns and E. B. Taylor for the
House,, Both may be set down
as two very hard committees A dis
agreement may arise in regard to some
of the clauses In fuckers substitute
bill. 1t would be a hu name and good
thing if disagreement arose as to the
whole bill, but no one here expects any
such thing. Edmunds prides himself
upon being a great Constitutional law
yer, and it is within the range of pos
bility that he might take it into his
bare, bald head to object to Mr.. Tucker
or anybody else undertaking to make
bills for him upon the, Mormon or any
other question with. which he thinks, he
is conversant. He might take into his
Uranium to mingle tolerance with his
independence; to say "the Mormons,
in my opinion, are bad. but they de-
serve no such sweeping censure as this.
fathered and framed by the House COM
mittee on Judiciary, to cure the evils
with which they are accused; to say
L
hand now for a long time, and framed
and had passed a bill in. the Senate
which I think goes as far as5the Con-
stitution will allow; 8 but the
Democrats have seen fit to ignore
that bill - to strike it all out
save the enacting elause-aud in its
place substitute a measure which, on
the face of it, can never, in many of its
provisions, be sustained by the courts,
and l don't propose to sanction any
such thing" There. is not much fear
that Edmund's will thus reason. he is
believed to be anti-Morrnon- enough to
accept anything the Democrats might
propose upon the subject; and If he
objects to fuckers substitute it will
oEly be upon the ground that whatever
is ultimately done towards settlement,
as he thinks, of the Mormon question,
he aud his party ought to have the
credit of it. A few days will tell what
the conference committees will do. If
they agree upon the bill, it will pass
from the hands of Congress to the
White House, and President CleVelands
signature to it will cause it to become
law. Many of the people are of the
opinion that the President dare not veto
any anti-Mormon measure, no matter
how fagrantly outrageous and uncon-
stitutlonal it may be. This may be true;
but the President has, upon so many
occasions, shown himself to be pos
sessed of such unusual grit, in the teeth
of all opposition, that there is no telling
what he will do. One thing sure-he
will do what he thinks is his duty.
and no power on earth Will
make him swerve from that path.
hnsifnfn 70 uotn VI hnln
batch of pension bills last session,
simply because his duty required him
to do so. He thus antagonized the i'm
nlense soldier vote of the country; but
he is a brave man who will hazard to
say that he will lose many soldier votes
by his action in these pension bill vetoes.
A pension bill and an anti-Mormon bill
are two different things. Only time
will tell what he will do with the latter
when IL reaches his hands. The people
of Utah will anxiously await the result.
With the exception of a four line dis.
patch in a Washington paper have
seen nothing in regard to the feeling in
Utah consequent upon the passage, by
the House, of the Edmunds-Tucker bill.
This telegram stated that the news OF
its passage had been jubilantly received
by the Gentiles, and mournfully blythe
Mormons. Until letters and papers
come along, am in ignorance upon this
point.
The Snow segregation" case is at
the bottom of the call of the calendar
for to-day, so that it is not likely to be
reached until to-morrowor Wednesday.
Mr.. Shows counsel are ready for the
argument. Theire~brief has been
prepared with great care. 1t is
impossible of course TO guess what the
decision will be. The people of Utah
hope it will be in favor of Mr.. Snow.
There are only about forty working
DAYS of the session left. There is yet
great deal of business that ought 10 be
done. Mr.. Randall has been absent for
a week. and Mr.. S. S. Cox has been sick
for about the same. periodic No tariff
bill has vet been introduced, but no one
can tell what another week will bring
forth. This an age, of sudden happen
ines. IhaYe always been of the opin~
ion that the Edmunds-Tucker bill, be-
cause of the important questions it iu-
yolyed, and the limited length OF the
session, could not be reached and fairly
discussed this session, In one par1cu-
lar was right. 1t was not fully dis
cussed. It was railroaded through IN
der the "gag-rule." AT my next writing
the bill may have become q law, How
.evar no one will ever make me believe